incarnate

  • adjective /inkaarnt/ often after a noun 1 (of a deity or spirit) embodied in flesh; in human form. 2 represented in the ultimate or most typical form: capitalism incarnate.

  • verb /inkaarnayt/ 1 embody or represent (a deity or spirit) in human form. 2 be the living embodiment of (a quality).

  — ORIGIN from Latin incarnare ‘make flesh’, from caro ‘flesh’.

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